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Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor
Ocean Nexus Deputy Director
Education
- BSc, Marine Biology, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur
- MSc, Resource Management and Environmental Studies, The University of British Columbia
- PhD, Resource Management and Environmental Studies, The University of British Columbia
Biography
Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor is a resource economist specializing on ocean and coastal social-ecological systems. Andrés is from the fishing port of Guaymas, Sonora, México, and has always been deeply involved with fisheries. His work aims to support equitable development and combat inequitable systems by melding qualitative and quantitative evidence. This includes the first global estimates of the economic value of marine ecotourism, seafood consumption by coastal Indigenous Peoples, and countries’ capacity to establish an equitable Blue Economy.
He is Deputy Director of the , one of the largest interdisciplinary collaborative research networks focused on social equity, well-being, and public health in coastal and marine contexts throughout the world. Andrés is very actively engaged in negotiations and debates on equity and sustainable development internationally and in Canada, where he is currently on the scientific advisory committee for the Pacific Integrated Commercial Fisheries Initiative (which aims to increase for First Nations' access and capacity for fisheries and aquaculture).
He has published over 90 peer-reviewed articles, 20 book chapters, a textbook, and many technical reports and science communication articles. His lab aims to support students from everywhere in the world that are passionate about learning how to best support coastal communities.
Selected Publications
Cisneros-Montemayor AM, Moreno-Báez M, Reygondeau G, Cheung WWL, Crosman KM, González-Espinosa PC, Lam VWY, Oyinlola MO, Singh GG, Swartz W, Zheng CW, Ota Y (2021) . Nature 591: 396-401
Cisneros-Montemayor AM, Aceves-Bueno E, Amezcua-Castro S, Apolinar-Romo A, Cisneros-Soberanis F, Cuevas-Gómez GA, Cruz-León IC, De La Cruz-González J, Espinoza-Tenorio A, GarcÃa-Lozano A, González-Espinosa PC, Cisneros-Mata MA (2023) . Fisheries Management and Ecology
Ota Y, Singh GG, Clark T, Schutter MS, Swartz W & Cisneros-Montemayor AM (2022). . PLoS Biology, 20(10), e3001841.
Cisneros-Montemayor AM, Croft F, Issifu I, Swartz W & Voyer M (2022). . One Earth, 5(9), 982-986.
Cisneros-Montemayor AM, Ducros AK, Bennett NJ, Fusco L, Hessing-Lewis M, Singh GG, Klain S (2022) Ocean & Coastal Management 220: 106097
Giron-Nava A, Lam VWY, Aburto-Oropeza O, Cheung WWL, Halpern BS, Sumaila UR, Cisneros-Montemayor AM (2021) . Fish and Fisheries
Cisneros-Montemayor AM, Zetina-Rejón MJ, Espinosa-Romero MJ, Cisneros-Mata MA, Singh GG, Fernández-Rivera Melo FJ (2020) . Ocean & Coastal Management 195: 105291
Cisneros-Montemayor AM, M Moreno-Báez M, Voyer M, Allison EH, Cheung WWL, Hessing-Lewis M, Oyinlola M, Singh GG, Swartz W, Ota Y (2019) . Marine Policy 109: 103702
Cisneros-Montemayor AM, Sumaila UR (2019) . Marine Policy 109: 103699
Wabnitz CCC, Cisneros-Montemayor AM, Hanich Q, Ota Y (2017) . Marine Policy 88: 323-332
Cisneros-Montemayor AM, Pauly D, Weatherdon LW, Ota Y (2016) . PLoS One 11 (1): e0166681
Cisneros-Montemayor AM, Barnes-Mauthe M, Al-Abdulrazzak D, Navarro-Holm E, Sumaila UR (2013) . Oryx 47 (3): 381-388
Courses
Spring 2025
Future courses may be subject to change.